Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Facilities Management: Opportunities to be Considered by Facility Managers

The demand of Building Information Modelling (BIM) is increasing recently as much international organisation and government taking the initiative to promote BIM in building life-cycle. Although the implementation of BIM is not an easy thing, BIM promising to benefits of efficient Information Management (IM) in Facilities Management (FM). There will be the improvement of the quality of life (QOL) in the workplace when adopting BIM in FM that encompasses multiple discipline to ensure higher functionality of the built environment by integrating people, place, processes and technology. In this studies, the opportunities acquire by the organisation implement BIM in FM for the benefit of QOL in the workplace are reviewed.